Newly painted w/ scratches and swirls. What to do?

[Tim Greer]

1randy, prep the clear on it now and paint over it, and then apply more clear on top? I'm not sure how that works. I used to work in my father's body shop, but I only did prep work, detailing, assembly and disassembly, so I don't know all of the ins and outs of matters like this, but I know that not a single car ever left our shop looking like this.


I already have three coats on top of the base, too much clear could cause cracking, so you're saying to prep it by getting down into the clear now, paint over it and then apply more clear. Wouldn't that create a problem? Would it be a proper base (the currently clear coat(s)) to paint over when re-shooting it? I can ask my father about that to be sure, but I just didn't think that would be a desirable method? I could be wrong. Either way, it does probably need to be reshot entirely.